Dear Monks

My application does everything in the UTC time. Works great, however I use a field which gets the current time:

|Field | Type      | Null |Key| Default         |Extra         |
created| timestamp | YES  |   |CURRENT_TIMESTAMP|   |
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which stores time as local time (not UTC)
I tried to change the time_zone like

$dbl = DBI->connect(DBI:mysql......) ;
$dbl->{'time_zone'} = "GMT" ;
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(also tried UTC)
However the current timestamp is still in local time.
Currently the time_zone is set to 'SYSTEM'. I don't own the database, so I need to change the session TZ!

Any suggestions how to change this ?

Thnx a lot
LuCa